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"Council chiefs told the Echo that every traffic management scheme has a schedule of safety audits once it’s been completed to ensure that traffic is behaving the way it was modelled."
I suppose they mean that they're making sure that's it's causing as much congestion as they'd planned (see: the Jubilee clock lights), and it's as confusing as they'd hoped for. (See also: the crossing that actually isn't at the top of King Street.)

"Council chiefs told the Echo that every traffic management scheme has a schedule of safety audits once it’s been completed to ensure that traffic is behaving the way it was modelled."
I suppose they mean that they're making sure that's it's causing as much congestion as they'd planned (see: the Jubilee clock lights), and it's as confusing as they'd hoped for. (See also: the crossing that actually isn't at the top of King Street.)arlbergbahn

maybe this man should spend more time in his arcade rather than patrolling the esplanade like an unlicensed security guard. i wonder what his boss makes of all this ? is it in his terms of employment that he oogles passers by for most of his working days ......

maybe this man should spend more time in his arcade rather than patrolling the esplanade like an unlicensed security guard. i wonder what his boss makes of all this ? is it in his terms of employment that he oogles passers by for most of his working days ......craigbastow1@outlook.com

This is not a bus lane, this is actually one long bus stop the only bus lane on the seafront is before the turning for Kings Street.
I agree that railings would be beneficial, but from a safety point of view if the cars still come down there they will just smash the railings into pedestrians causing even worse injuries and more cost continually repairing them, surely a better idea would be to put an island along the outside of the bus stop with bus only signs at the entrance, with gaps for service vehicles and the land train to go through. All it would take then would be maybe a railing along the island to stop vehicles entering the bus stop which would lead them to the crossing along the road, it would also mean buses having to move along the stop as the bus in front moves back onto the road and most importantly the council actually enforcing the sign that says no coach drop off, this area in the summer months is full of day trip coaches and the local buses have nowhere to drop off, the whole thing like the traffic system in town is a mess maybe it needs a simple person with simple ideas to sort rather than some overpaid council worker that doesn't seem to understand how the real world works !

This is not a bus lane, this is actually one long bus stop the only bus lane on the seafront is before the turning for Kings Street.
I agree that railings would be beneficial, but from a safety point of view if the cars still come down there they will just smash the railings into pedestrians causing even worse injuries and more cost continually repairing them, surely a better idea would be to put an island along the outside of the bus stop with bus only signs at the entrance, with gaps for service vehicles and the land train to go through. All it would take then would be maybe a railing along the island to stop vehicles entering the bus stop which would lead them to the crossing along the road, it would also mean buses having to move along the stop as the bus in front moves back onto the road and most importantly the council actually enforcing the sign that says no coach drop off, this area in the summer months is full of day trip coaches and the local buses have nowhere to drop off, the whole thing like the traffic system in town is a mess maybe it needs a simple person with simple ideas to sort rather than some overpaid council worker that doesn't seem to understand how the real world works !Joe_Bloggs

Um. Design unsafe scheme, same organisation then does the safety audit! Hardly surprising these idiotic things get through across the County.

Examples. ASDA junction, the pinch point at the town end of the Esplanade bus lane, this bus stop (Weymouth), stupid signs telling strangers a destination is straight ahead instead of right (at least two approaches to the Football Stadium Rndabout (Dorchester), lane markings you can't actually follow through the roundabout (several), etc., etc.

Um. Design unsafe scheme, same organisation then does the safety audit! Hardly surprising these idiotic things get through across the County.
Examples. ASDA junction, the pinch point at the town end of the Esplanade bus lane, this bus stop (Weymouth), stupid signs telling strangers a destination is straight ahead instead of right (at least two approaches to the Football Stadium Rndabout (Dorchester), lane markings you can't actually follow through the roundabout (several), etc., etc.John New